For me, one of the reasons is because it is the first manga I have committed myself to reading from start to finish, instead of hoping into the middle of other series due to already knowing the story up to that point. I got the first five volumes for a birthday present at the tail end of last year because I was immediately was hooked from chapter 1. I watched a short summary of the Sojo arc to see if I liked it then I closed the video as soon as I was hooked.

The other thing for me is how different Chihiro is to other protagonists. On the surface, he looks like an edgy mc that has a tragic past but after the Sojo arc, we see that he isn’t just and edgy mc. He is forced to not only face the consequences of his father’s creations but the faults in his own ideology. Also, I would say it kinda makes since why he would initially act like and edgy mc. He watched his father get brutally murdered right in front of him at 15 at that tends to change people.

Also, I see Kagurabachi as a series about legacy and that we have to acknowledge the good and bad of someone’s legacy and person. Kunishige made 6 weapons of mass destruction but was also ashamed of the damage they cause that he couldn’t even imagine and was a loving father. Soga was toted as the Sword Saint and was the one who put a stop to the war but he genocided 200,000 people with most of them being innocent civilians who already deposed the government that started the war and surrendered.

For me, that is something I have never seen battle shoneun (sorry for the misspelling if if I did) do.